From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 23 20:45:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 407FC37B409 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:45:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from cache2.telkomsel.co.id (cache2.telkomsel.co.id [202.155.14.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A871D43EB2 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:45:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arief@bna.telkomsel.co.id) Received: from gsi-wall1 (252.83.1.10.in-addr.arpa [10.1.83.252]) by cache2.telkomsel.co.id (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h0O4ifFb053682; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:45:06 +0700 (JAVT) (envelope-from arief@bna.telkomsel.co.id) Received: from ([10.1.92.57]) by gsi-wall1; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:44:33 +0700 (WIT) Message-ID: <3E30C2A5.5040502@bna.telkomsel.co.id> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:35:49 +0700 From: arief_mulya Organization: damai itu indah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tech@openbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear all, I Apologize, If this thread has existed before, and so if this is very offtopic and tiredsome for most of you here. I'm a newbie, and just about to get my feet wet into the kernel-code, been using (GNU/)Linux (or whatever the name is, I personally don't really care, I caremost at the technical excellence) for the last two years, I personally think it's a toupper(great); system. But after recently reviewing some BSD based systems, I began to wonder. And these are my questions (I'm trying to avoid flame and being a troll here, so if there's any of my questions is not on technical basis, or are being such a jerk troll please just trash filter my name and email address): 1. In what technical area of the kernel are Linux and *BSD differ? 2. How does it differ? What are the technical reasoning behind the decisions? 3. Is there any group of developer from each project that review each other changes, and tries to make the best code out, or is the issues very system specific (something that work best on Linux might not be so on FreeBSD or NetBSD or OpenBSD)? 4. Any chance of merging the very best part of each kernel? 5. Or is it possible to do so? Anything else that matters, are welcome. Please answer technically, I don't wanna be a troll here, and I hope so do everyone that answers this. I really like to learn, not to read some flame of who's the best. To freebsd and openbsd list, please CC the answer to me directly, as I don't get response from the majordomo of my subscription requests, yet. Best Regards, arief_mulya -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message